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...life of me, that doesn't make any sense," says an adviser to the Bush campaign. "She is hated by the constituency they were trying to court with her selection." Chavez, a native New Mexican who does not speak a word of Spanish, is the lead ax wielder against bilingual education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confirmation Bear Traps | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Four scene. Then a colleague told me a friend at CBS told him - in close confidence, of course - that Gervase was the one. And then there was the Greg debacle: CBS posted an article at the "Survivor" site a couple of Wednesdays back that announced the irritating coconut-phone wielder as the victim of that night's council. Which, praise God, he was. Clearly this didn't bode well - a blatant and idiotic mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaargh! CBS Is Playing 'Survivor' Mind Games | 8/3/2000 | See Source »

...think that the team really finished up the season very well," senior saber-wielder Paul A. Legutko says. "It took us a little while to get started, but during the second half of the season we performed much better than we did in the first half...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Van Leeuwen Stars For Mediocre M. Fencers | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...directors, designers, cinematographers would make their names in Europe, then stow away to the States. And co-opting like crazy from the start, Hollywood made foreigners its greatest stars: Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, Cary Grant and Greta Garbo. So it is only fitting that the torchbearer, the sword wielder, the giant of American movies, should be an overgrown Austrian with a face and body out of a superhero comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Brawn | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...owned would surely have rusted to nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible, discovered on the Hungarian plain and owned by none other than Attila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clockwork Plot | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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